Oral History Interviews with
John W. Snyder

Secretary of the Treasury in the Truman Administration, 1946-53. Other Federal positions once held include Executive Vice-President and Director, Defense Plant Corporation, 1940-43; Assistant to the Director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1940-44; Federal Loan Administrator, 1945; Director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, 1945-46. Secretary Snyder was a longtime close friend of Harry S. Truman beginning with their service in the U.S. Army Reserves after World War I.

NOTICEThese are transcripts of
tape-recorded interviews conducted for the Harry S. Truman Library. A
draft of each transcript was edited by the interviewee but only minor
emendations were made; therefore, the reader should remember that these
are essentially transcripts of the spoken, rather than the written word.

Numbers appearing in square brackets (ex. [45]) within the transcript
indicate the pagination in the original, hardcopy version of the Snyder
oral history interviews.

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Democratic National Convention of 1948, role in, 1019-1030Democratic
National Convention of 1952, role in, 1510as
Vice-President of the United States, 665,
667-668Vice-Presidential
nomination of, 656-660,
661-664

Doughton, Robert L., 1908-1909Douglas,
Lewis William, 1022Douglas,
William O., as possible nominee for Vice-Presidency on Democratic ticket
in 1948, 660-661Dunlap,
John, 888,
896-897Dusseldorf,
Germany, as a strategic target in World War II, 480-481